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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Klaus Doppler, Albany, CA (US);

Sayantan Choudhury, Berkeley, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment is directed to a method comprising sensing, by an apparatus, a shared channel; determining whether the shared channel is free; determining whether a synchronization signal has been received; and based on that the shared channel is determined free and the synchronization signal is determined received, beginning to access the shared channel.


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